THE ORIGINALS season 5, episode 13 marked the last-ever instalment of The Vampire Diaries spin-off series. Here’s a series finale recap of When The Saints Go Marching In.

WARNING: This article contains spoilers from The Originals series finale

When The Saints Go Marching In brought The Originals to a momentous close with plenty of love and loss among the Mikaelson clan.

The CW show's series finale picked up from the end of last week in which Klaus Mikaelson (played by Joseph Morgan) was planning to kill himself with the White Oak Stake to save his daughter Hope’s (Danielle Rose Russell) life.

However, Hope had other ideas and knocked him unconscious as she and her uncle Elijah (Daniel Gillies) took him back to New Orleans.

Back in his hometown, Klaus prepared to say goodbye to his loved ones and the city itself which has served as a character itself (even though The Originals is filmed in Georgia, Atlanta).

During a goodbye tour of New Orleans with Caroline (Candice King), Klaus revealed his plans to say goodbye but admitted he was unsure the best way to do so – being immortal probably makes finality a bit tricky.

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Caroline gave him a succinct, albeit heart-breaking, example of bidding farewell as she kissed him before walking away without looking back.

After his last look around the town, Klaus headed back to his family as he got ready to see them all for the last time before crossing over into the Great Beyond or Peace - where we previously saw Hayley (Phoebe Tonkin).

But Klaus wouldn’t be going alone after Elijah revealed that he’d also intentionally absorbed some of the darkness and would be going as well.

Elijah said that his purpose was to help his brother achieve redemption, and Klaus’ desire to sacrifice himself for Hope had helped him to finally reach this point.

Now that Klaus had come to this moment, Elijah’s work was complete and they were both ready to go into the next world together.

The siblings both took their lives and the evil of the Hollow with it, so that Hope could have a safer future.

Despite The Originals losing its two leads, there were some moments of happiness after Rebekah (Claire Holt) changed her mind about Marcel (Charles Michael Davis) and accepted his proposal after jilting him at the start of season five.

Shortly before popping his clogs, Klaus also told Rebekah that there was a cure for her at Mystic Falls that would give her a normal life and a chance at happiness.

Finally, Freya (Riley Voelkel) approached Vincent (Yusef Gatewood) about needing his help so that she and Keelin (Christina Moses) could have a child together.

Initially, Vincent was reluctant but eventually agreed after seeing the deaths of Klaus and Elijah.

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While this might be the end for The Originals, it’s not it from The Vampire Diaries universe.

Fans will be treated to brand new spin-off series Legacies this autumn, which follows the adventures of the newly orphaned Hope and her life at The Salvatore Boarding School for the Young & Gifted in Mystic Falls.

A trailer was recently released at San Diego Comic-Con, teasing what audiences could expect from the new series and was narrated by Hope, who hinted that each of the characters had both light and dark within them.

Legacies will see the next generation of werewolves, vampires and other supernatural beings growing up and trying to make a better life for themselves without repeating the mistakes of those that came before them.

The spin-off from The Originals has also been written by The Vampire Diaries creator Julie Plec and it’s likely that we could see some of the surviving characters from The Originals turning up in the new programme.

The Originals season 5 is slated to be released on Netflix on August 9